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<p> '''Hin'nom.''' ''(lamentation).'' ''Valley of '' '''Hinnom''' ''.'' [[Otherwise]] called, "the valley of the son" or "children of Hinnom," a deep and narrow ravine, with steep, rocky sides, to the south and west of Jerusalem, separating Mount Zion to the north from the "hill of evil counsel," and the sloping rocky plateau of the "plain of Rephaim" to the south. The earliest mention of the valley of Hinnom is in &nbsp;Joshua 15:8; &nbsp;Joshua 18:16, where the boundary line between the tribes of Judah and Benjamin is described as passing along the bed of the ravine. </p> <p> On the southern brow, overlooking the valley at its eastern extremity, [[Solomon]] erected high places for Molech, &nbsp;1 Kings 11:7, whose horrid rites were revived, from time to time, in the same vicinity. The later idolatrous kings, [[Ahaz]] and Manasseh, made their children "pass through the fire," in this valley, &nbsp;2 Kings 16:3; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 28:3; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 33:6, and the fiendish custom of infant sacrifice to the fire-gods seems to have been kept up in ''Tophet'' , which was another name for this place. </p> <p> To put an end to these abominations, the place was polluted by Josiah, who renders it ceremonially unclean, by spreading over it human bones and other corruptions, &nbsp;2 Kings 23:10; &nbsp;2 Kings 23:13-14; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 34:4-5, from which time, it appears to have become the common cesspool of the city, into which sewage was conducted, to be carried off by the waters of the Kidron. From its ceremonial defilement, and from the detested and abominable fire of Molech, if not from the supposed ever-burning funeral piles, the later Jews applied the name of this valley - ''Ge Hinnom'' , ''Gehenna.'' ''(land of Hinnom)'' - to denote the place of eternal torment. In this sense, the word is used by our Lord. &nbsp;Matthew 5:29; &nbsp;Matthew 10:28; &nbsp;Matthew 23:15; &nbsp;Mark 9:43; &nbsp;Luke 12:5. </p>

<p> '''Hinnom''' (''hîn'nom'' ), perhaps ''lamentation.'' The valley of the son or sons of Hinnom, or, more concisely, the valley of Hinnom, the boundary between Judah and Benjamin. &nbsp;Joshua 15:8; &nbsp;Joshua 18:16. It was the place where children were made "to pass through the fire to Molech," and was defiled by Josiah, in order to extinguish forever such detestable rites. &nbsp;2 Kings 23:10; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 28:3; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 33:6; &nbsp;Jeremiah 7:31-32; &nbsp;Jeremiah 19:2; &nbsp;Jeremiah 19:6; &nbsp;Jeremiah 32:35. It is mentioned after the captivity again as the frontier of Judah and Benjamin. &nbsp;Nehemiah 11:30. From the fires of [[Moloch]] and from the defilement of the valley, comp. &nbsp;Isaiah 30:33; &nbsp;Isaiah 66:24, if not from the supposed everburning funeral fires, the later Jews applied the name of the valley (in the [[Septuagint]] ''Geënna),'' to the place of eternal suffering for lost angels and men; and in this sense it is used in the New Testament. &nbsp;Matthew 5:22; &nbsp;Matthew 5:29-30; &nbsp;Matthew 10:28; &nbsp;Mark 9:43; &nbsp;Mark 9:45; &nbsp;Mark 9:47; &nbsp;Luke 12:5; &nbsp;James 3:6. </p>